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Intellectual Property
March 23, 2023
Matt Ford
Will the Supreme Court Let Jack Daniel’s Go to the Dogs?
The high court’s most unusual case of the current term will determine if our trademark laws are all bark and no bite.
January 12, 2023
Matt Ford
Dungeons & Dragons Fans Prepare to Face Their Greatest Adversary
Devotees of the legendary role-playing game could end up on the losing side of the next big intellectual property war.
November 29, 2022
Matt Ford
How Whiskey and Chew Toys Dragged the Supreme Court Into a First Amendment Fracas
In a potentially significant case about parody and intellectual property, the high court may get the last laugh.
December 24, 2021
Natalie Shure
Why Isn’t the World Vaccinated as Omicron Spreads Like Wildfire? Blame Rich Countries.
Big Pharma and cowardly leaders in the Global North have left poor countries vulnerable to the most contagious Covid variant yet.
June 4, 2021
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
June 1, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property
Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
May 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Amazon Devours MGM in the Latest Merger of the Content Armageddon
The e-commerce giant covets the Hollywood studio’s sweet, sweet cache of intellectual property.
May 6, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created
Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.
March 15, 2021
Alex Pareene
Most of the World Has a Simple Vaccine Request. America Isn’t Listening.
Nations across the world are demanding the right to manufacture their own Covid-19 vaccines. Why is the U.S. saying no?
August 24, 2020
Alexander Zaitchik
How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine
The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.
June 3, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Vaccines Don’t Make Money
Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 14, 2020
Magazine
Dean Baker
Building an Economy That Works Again
A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown
March 18, 2020
Dean Baker
Inoculating the Coronavirus Vaccine Against the Profit Pandemic
Competition among private medical interests is impeding the race for the cure.
June 14, 2013
Lydia DePillis
How to Prevent Chinese Employees From Stealing Secrets: Drunk Karaoke
That's one consultant's advice, anyway, for paranoid companies
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